Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Gym leg day!

 Gym today was gud. I woke up a little later than i wanted but that's okay since i still ended up going. 

  • Warm-up (23 minutes)
  • Hip adductors 1x15 (25kg) 3x10 (30kg)
  • Leg press 3x15 (30>40>40kg), 1x12 (50kg), 1x10 (60kg )
  • Leg extension 4x12 (15>20>25>25) 
  • Lat pulldowns 3x15 (20>20>25kg)
  • Barbell squats 5x5 4kg
  • Stretch

After the gym i went to the store to grab some food and then when i came home i did my 5x5 squats. I warmed up with the bar and did 10 squats, then i put the weights on and i did 5x5. On Friday i will try and do it with 5kg and build up from there. 


Anyways, hip adductors were a little tough today. I only got to 6-8 full reps with 30kg, and had to push my legs really hard (sometimes pushing them closed with my hands) to get to 12. I think next time i will go 15>20>20>25kg and then do another 25kg super set till 20 reps (do some reps, rest, do some reps, rest till i hit 20). 

Leg press went a bit tougher today too. I felt the chemicals boiling in my quads with only doing 40kg. I think i will also super set the leg press on Friday with 60kg. I honestly think i will super set everything on Friday.

Leg extension was rough as always. After doing 8 reps with 25 i had to take a deep breath and take a 1 second pause to get myself to 12. So i am excited to super set this on Friday.

I forgot to do cable kickbacks today. I felt a bit distracted, but i did end up doing the lat pulldowns, which went quite tough. I thought last week i did 30kg, but i did 25kg and 25kg went a bit easier today (still very tough). 

And the squats went alright. I still don't know how to squat properly. I feel like every time i squat i do it differently. The introduction guy from the gym walked over to me today to ask how i'm doing and i told him i got a barbell and stuff and he said that they were more than willing to help me if i want to practice squats in the gym so that's cool. I did tell him did it was scary and intimidating to me cause there are so many strong people around and i don't want to look stupid. He also said it was cool that i got into fitness so much, but like... i was already planning on doing that with or without the gym lol. 

O yeah, my warm-up was also a bit longer today cause there were some kids on the stair master, so i kept going on the elliptical until they left. So i got an extra 3-4 minutes on the elliptical. I wonder if it is a holiday week or something, cause there were quite some teens in the gym and also a bunch of very young kids. I do know tomorrow is a national holiday so it might be that it is also a free week for school.

I wonder how much my legs will hurt tomorrow but i will do some core work-outs regardless. Friday leg day at gym again, and Saturday i will do arms/shoulders at home.

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